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as ‘Japanese comics’ that can be dated back to the often humorous ouline drawings done by sixth-century Shintoist monks to illustrate calendar scrolls (Sanchez 2003)…Manga are complex texts requiring English-language readers to learn to read comic frames from right-to-left and recognize the significance of different sized-frames.  **Memetics.** Memetics  is an approach to [|evolutionary models] of cultural [|information transfer] based on the concept of the //[|meme]//. Starting from a proposition put forward in the writings of [|Richard Dawkins], it has since turned into a new area of study, one that looks at the self-replicating units of culture.
 * Manga. **(pronounced as ‘mahngag’) is a stylized graphic genre generally referred to
 *  Mediacasting. **Any distribution of audio/video media files utilizing RSS. 
 *  Memes. **(Alter as I learn more here – ie. With an example of a meme.) “Memes are contagious patterns of cultural information that are passed from mind to mind and directly shape and propagate key actions and mindsets of a social group. (Lankshear & Knobel, 2006, p.211). Lankshear and Knobel note that “we thinkg meming that makes use of relatively well-defined affinity spaces and electronic networks can usefully be indentified as an example of a ‘new’ literacy practice that deserves attention in relation to literacy education. (2006, p. 213)